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John Akomfrah OBE (UK), presents his diptych film Auto da Fé (2016) which which uses the aesthetics of a period drama to consider the historical and contemporary causes of migration, focusing on religious persecution as a major cause of global displacement. Lamia Joreige’s (Lebanon) Under-Writing Beirut explores Lebanon’s complex history of conflict and how Beirut’s past and present continues to affect the city and its people. Amy Franceschini (USA) has travelled to Cardiff from Oslo by boat retracing the migratory journey of seeds, which will explore the politics of food production and the countries that our foods originate from. Neïl Beloufa’s (France/Algeria), will present a series of films including Monopoly (2016) where a group of Ukrainian teenagers to play Monopoly. The playfulness of this work belies the seriousness of the issues it takes on, questioning politics and power structures.
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